Squid

Westminster, Colorado, United States

Squid is a caching proxy for the web that supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more.

According to our data, Squid ranks 26th among the caching solutions we track.
It has 0.02% of the caching market share and is detected on 0.009% of all websites.

🏠 Website
- squid-cache.org #148,842
</> Source code
- GitHub

💸 Pricing

Squid is available for free.

Free ✔️Open source

📊 Rankings and Market Share

Caching
- Rank: 26
- Market share: 0.02%
Load Balancers
- Rank: 17
- Market share: 0.1%

🏆 Squid Awards

⭐ 10th most popular in Japan in the Load Balancers category.
🔥 13rd most popular in Japan in the Caching category.
🔥 14th most popular in Germany in the Load Balancers category.
🔥 17th most popular in the United States in the Load Balancers category.
🔥 20th most popular in Germany in the Caching category.
⬆️ 24th most popular in the United States in the Caching category.

⚡ Sites Using Squid

We have data on 302 websites that use the Squid caching solution. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.

The highest rated site using Squid is p-world.co.jp.

#	Website	Rank	Country	Language
1	p-world.co.jp	#2,842	Japan	Japanese
2	imslp.org	#7,402	United States	English
3	vedur.is	#12,243	Iceland	Icelandic
4	launchpad.net	#14,151	United Kingdom	English
5	o2.sk	#18,359	Slovakia	Slovak
6	cups.nu	#27,764	Sweden	English
7	tfwiki.net	#28,577		English
8	fsf.org	#52,282	United States	English
9	dandwiki.com	#59,500		English
10	ongov.net	#73,366	United States	English
11	eisenhowerhealth.org	#88,199	United States	English
12	bspu.by	#96,210	Belarus	Russian
13	bugs.launchpad.net		United Kingdom	English
14	o2knihovna.cz	#102,394	Czech Republic	Czech
15	fanlore.org	#104,483	United States	English
16	bryanhealth.org	#105,470	United States
17	chineseinla.com	#114,107		Chinese
18	traconelectric.com	#116,777	Romania	Hungarian
19	advanceagro.net	#119,259	Thailand	English
20	gugik.gov.pl	#122,376	Poland	Polish

📈 Usage Statistics

Most of the sites that use Squid:

are located in Japan
have content in Japanese
use the .com domain extension
fall into the Marketing/Merchandising category.

🌎 Countries📢 Languages⭐ TLDs🗃️ Domain Categories

Most of the sites using Squid are from Japan, Germany, and the United States.

Most Squid users speak Japanese, English, or German.

The Squid caching solution is especially popular on .com, .de, and .net top-level domains.

The primary market segments for websites utilizing Squid include marketing and merchandising, business, and portal sites.

🔢 Squid Versions

The most common version of Squid is 2.7, used by 34.4% of sites where versions were detected. In addition, 23.8% of sites use Squid 4.15, and 18.9% use Squid 3.5.

2.7 34.4%
4.15 23.8%
3.5 18.9%
3.1 5.3%
4.10 3.6%
2.6 2.3%
5.7 2%
3.3 1.3%
4.17 1%
Other 7.4%

🕵️ Similar Technologies

These are some of the best Squid alternatives.

Rank	Name
1	Varnish Stockholm, Sweden An open-source web application accelerator, also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. FreeOpen source$1,500+/year
1	Nginx Seattle, Washington, United States A lightweight, high-performance open-source HTTP server and reverse proxy. FreeOpen source$3,500+/year
6	Envoy San Francisco, California, United States A high-performance, open source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications and large microservice "service mesh" architectures. FreeOpen source
12	Apache Traffic Server Wilmington, Delaware, United States A fast, scalable, and extensible web proxy cache that improves performance by caching frequently accessed information at the edge of the network. FreeOpen source
13	HAProxy Newton, Massachusetts, United States A high-performance reverse proxy and load balancer for TCP- and HTTP-based applications. FreeOpen source$$$